Tom M'Guinn

Anybody else notice that the Zeitronix display sometimes does not boot-up? If I turn the ignition key too quickly, my Zeitronix never goes on and I have to turn off the car and re-start to get the Zeitronix to boot up. Anybody else have this happen?

Eyal 951

yep, i have that too.
~Eyal

johne

Not me, but I'll keep an eye out for it.

-John

RKD in OKC

Got that too. Previous owner even told me about it when showing me the car.

Claus Groth

Haven't had a problem in the track car. When I get to the hot pits, I turn the engine off. I then connect the signal cable to the laptop. I start the engine several minutes before we go onto the track and have not missed a download.

RKD in OKC

I think he's talking about the display being blank.

Black Arrow

Sorry about the off topic question, but have any of you had problems with the connection between the zeitronix and the laptop? I have a usb-serial cabel, because my laptop, IBM R51, doesnt got a serial connector.. When logging the Zt-2, WinXP often get the famous blue screen and need to be restartet. Could this be the usb-serial cabel or is there a software conflict somewhere? When logging the SMT6 theres no problems with the same usb-serial connector!

special tool

Thomas - this is what I was telling you. The zeitronix is too fast for USB. It will NEVER work correctly.

The reason for no problem with SMT6 is that it is not high speed like the ZT2.

theedge

That could also be a driver glitch with the usb to serial dongle.

Tom M'Guinn

I use a USB to Serial cable (converter) also, for the same reason. It works, but sometimes it will just stop logging on its own, and I have to restart the logging. I don't have to reboot anything, just restart logging in the windows program. I never thought that might be because of the USB connection speed (or lack thereof). What's the issue there?

Sam Lin

Which USB/serial converters do you have? I don't have a Zeitronix, but have had other cases where certain converters worked fine and others would drop connections or cause errors.

Sam

special tool

It is because of the speed of the 5 wire box.

Black Arrow

Jim,
and I thought that I had a fast laptop!

But, are you serious? Is the zt-2 to fast for a usb connection?? hehe!
I quess I could try another serial-usb converter! Dont remember the name for it now, but will post the name when I`ve checked!
I see that zeitronix offer a usb-serial converter! Anyone used this? Does it work? What brand?

special tool

I used Zeitronix's own usb adapter - STILL didn't work with XP. I had to run ZT2 through serial, or I would get an error 50% of the datalogs.

johne

It is my understanding that USB to Serial adapters vary pretty widely in quality. I "rented" one from Office Depot for a month and made ~30 runs with it. I never had a problem, it worked fine every time. I don't doubt that some people are having problems with some converters though.

-John